SourceForge.net and Subversion

Today I've discovered that SourceForge.net is offering Subverion control system. Last time I've seen that I just realized on CVS.If you already have your project, you have to change it manually; from your control panel, Admin > Subversion, and enable it.

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File encodings

Many times, specially when writing web pages, you have to deal with texts with different encodes (if web site isn't in us-ascii, of course). Here are some useful tips for not spending too much time with this:bash# file -i (for knowing the...

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chmod and umask

Both UNIX commands are used to set permissions, chmod is for changing permissions of a specific file, and umask is for setting default creation permissions for a user.BasicsSimple UNIX permissions are:r (read)w (write)x (execute)and them can be...

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Download full web sites

I've spent too much time searching for an application that allows me downloading all files (all pages, images...) from a web site.It has been a hard search, but finally I've found one installed on my computer...Yeah, of course wget can do that!...

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Firefox Extensions

When developing web pages is essential having a good set of firefox extensions. It gives you powerful tools for checking accessibility, and for getting more information on your website, and are also good fot getting information about all...

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Allow user to execute root files

Sometimes it's useful allowing users to execute programs reserved for root. For example if we have a desktop system, we can allow users to halt or reboot computer.There are several ways to achieve it, the proposed here is the simplest one...

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GPG Error updating Debian Etch

Probably not happening anymore with Debian Etch as stable, but that error happened sometimes when apt-get update:W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key...

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Adding your blogger page to Google sitemap

Google sitemap is a service that allows you to get many information about what Google think about your page (pageranks, best position searches, errors...). It's easy to use sitemap whan you have your page in a server under your control, but there...

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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released

Finally, after 21 months of constant development, last version of Debian distribution has been released. Oppositely to previous versions of Debian, Etch has a "up-to-date flavour", including last version packages such as Linux kernel 2.6, MySQL...

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bug in IE

It's known that Microsoft Internet Explorer usually shows pages in a different way than good web programmers expect. Luckily those differences diminish when using XHTML Strict and CSS, but sometimes we are surprised for some huge bugs.This is the...

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